A serial killer is an individual who murders three or more people, with the killings taking place over a period of more than one month in three or more separate events. The Federal Bureau of Investiga
1829 illustration of Irish serial killer William Burke murdering Margaret Docherty
Juhani Aataminpoika, a Finnish serial killer also known as "Kerpeikkari" ("The Executioner"), was one of the most active serial killers of the 19th century, killing as many as 12 people in 1849 within five weeks before being caught.
The 'Nemesis of Neglect': Jack the Ripper depicted as a phantom stalking Whitechapel, and as an embodiment of social neglect, in a Punch cartoon of 1888
Elmer Wayne Henley (left) and David Owen Brooks (right), accomplices to serial killer Dean Corll, who murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973
Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas.
Serial killer
…would dump his victims' bodies in mass graves. Late 20th century Elmer Wayne Henley (left) and David Owen Brooks (right), accomplices to serial killer Dean Corll, who murdered at least 29 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 The serial killing phenomenon in the United States was especially prominent…
Corll (left), pictured with his mother and brother in June 1950
Corll, pictured with his half-sister, Joyce West, c. 1960
Corll, aged 24, shortly after entering the US Army in August 1964